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Artist: Abra Moore
Website: www.abramoore.com
Album Name: On the Way

A while back I reviewed Abra Moore, singer/songwriter here on Duggup. Her publicity team, with particular thanks to Patrick Steven Patterson are a class act.

On the Way is an album that grows on you with repeated listenings. The first time you hear the album you know that Abra Moore writes the kind of songs that break your heart. Pop songs that transend that genre. Subsequent listenings reveal layers and textures that blend with a voice that pushes her vocal boundaries.

There are many singers both male and female, but few indeed with a repetoire of such subtly beautiful songs. Her strength is in being able to allow her words to drift through the medium of her music like leaves dropped into a flowing stream. But her far from perfect voice is the perfect fit to these songs about less than perfect life.

This is a very listenable album – joyful and bittersweet. Each track on the album earns it’s place. Songs like After All These Years tremble with emotion and then breaks into a kickass chorus. The album is full of these wonderful juxapositions. I Believe is an anthem for anyone who has ever loved.

This is a delightfully crafted album on many levels, lyrics, arrangements and production combine to create a memorable album and one that that has earned a place in my collection. I don’t want to tell you about the songs because I can’t do them justice, listen to the album, buy it and enjoy it.

After All These Years with Will Sexton on guitar. In store live performance at Criminal Records, Atlanta, Georgia.

jools is a graphic designer who used to front a band on vocals and bass. All evidence of which have mercifully been obliterated or otherwise lost.
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